Show NATIONAL WOOL MARKETING corporation more information on the place utah will occupy in ili the program ot of the national wool marketing corporation to give the wool growers the control in fit the mar marketing koting end of their business they have long sought has been announced by jame A hooper ot of salt lake secretary ot of the utah state wool growers and director ot of the national corporation mr air hooper also also has information on the now marketing agreements lit in the national organization program utah Is in district 2 other s s in this group include montana wy wyoming bining colorado and arizona this area will have tour four directors in the national corporation tho the present temporary directors representing the district aro are in addition to mr Ilbo hooper per A A johns arizona M E H stebbins montana and J B wilson wyoming who la Is secretary treasurer ot of the corporation po ration the district lit in which utah Is included produced pounds ot of wool last year As utah la im one of the leading range lange wool states of the nation and has been active in the ot of cooperative in varl oits bra nhea of its it Im bistry the i tate ax IH aed led tamika to aake ini an active ache part lit in the now new wool selling program last year wool clip amounted to pounds giving the state fittl i place among the states this clip came from fro in sheep at the beginning ot of 1930 rep 0 As the U S department of 0 Agri agriculture agricula cult ur utah had bad sheep a slight d de dine cline from the number reported last year the states wool clip wits waa wa a pounds more than the state produced in 1920 when a clip ot of IB 10 pounds c came ame from sheep there are now approximately more sheep in the state than all in 1920 utah s wool harvest came in 1928 when pounds were produced feed tile the low year was waa 1922 1022 when production amounted to only pounds utah wool growers are displaying much interest in the new wool market ing program says mr hooper it is IB quite apparent that we will meet with success in this new wool marketing under undertaking tating and it may lie be larger than any of us have ever anticipated the oal wool marketing machinery established by the federal farm board is to carry to the wool growing industry the purposes of the agricultural marketing act of 1929 the two principal alms aims are to ate ruinous speculation and competition from the field of wool selling in considering the existing wool mar methods in the united states the farm board obery ober Yet Kl that losa leaa than 10 per cent of iho the nat nations losta clip was being handled by associations this volume approximately pounds was baini sold on the market by six different organizations many of the cooperatives being assembling agen agencies clea only volumes handled by wool tires varied from less than a million to more than pounds the count rys largest wool cooperative having this last amount some ot of the i private wool houses have controlled in ID one season more than talca iwic a the abo volume handled by all 0 of the cooil cra ilves combined alence the board decided the first stop step should he be along tho the line of centralization 0 of grower selling effort as a means of doing dohig away with with the competition which had developed among the cooperatives on a recent visit to utan prank frank J hagenbarth president dont ol of the Natio national nul wool growers association tit of the board of director 3 ol of corpora tion alon anti and Mul chairman ot of the ho wool nod and mohair advisory to tho the federal farm board Diar fl thi bolle that the new wool sales agency would w control the marketing ot of at least 25 por per cent of 0 the connof conn rf i wool clip his air this ajl ulve give the tha wool co a Buttle tut of ct the clip to be a strong market factor fur for the farm board estimates that control ot of 15 to 20 per cent of 0 the do mesic production ot of any community Is sufficient su to exert a strong market a stabilization influence |